luadhadh

-aidh, sm Fulling, act of fulling, process of fulling. 2 Charging, laying to one's charge. 3** Mentioning. 4** Praising. A' luadhadh, pr pt of luaidh. Where fulling-mills are at a distance, the waulking or fulling of cloth is performed by females in the following manner. Six or eight or sometimes as many as fourteen, take their stations, at equal distances, on each side of a long frame of wattled work or sometimes of a board ribbed longitudinally and placed on the ground. Thereon is laid the wetted blanket or cloth which is to undergo the process of waulking. The women then kneel and with their hands rub it firmly against the frame with all their strength at the same time singing loudly some spirited melody. When their arms grow tired, they naturally have recourse to their legs; then sitting upon the ground and tucking their petticoats up to their knees, the cloth is forthwith put under a course of more vigorous friction than before. As the work grows warm the song grows louder and louder The song is known as òran luadhaidh, and the house or shed in which the work is performed an taigh-luadhaidh. In most places, the waulking-board is now placed two-and-a-half feet from the ground and the operators sit, instead of kneeling to the work. Waulking with the feet has also been practically discontinued now (1911).


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